Terri Allen
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My 3(and a half) Reading Goals for the Year
To start off with a very honest answer I want to read 100 books. Why? Because why not? I believe that I can do it, it’s only eight and a bit books a month and I’ve already read six books by the time I’m writing this. I have a strong capability to read books really fast and so I thought I’d give myself a few additional challenges to make the task harder than it needs to be.
By Terri Allen4 months ago in BookClub
November 2023 Update so Far
So it’s the 26th of April and I am currently about 4000 words below my target for Camp NaNoWriMo and I am STRESSING OUT. I have no reason for this because I haven't failed to complete a writing task yet. I write better when I am doing it "competitavely".
By Terri Allen4 months ago in Journal
A Dream of a Land
The air was thick with a putrid smell and the sky wasn’t the crystal blue skies that I remembered so well. How did the world come to this as if overnight? I was surrounded by the corpses of trees that no longer held colour or leaves, the wood was stained grey as if they had absorbed as much of the smoky ashes that flew in the air.
By Terri Allen4 months ago in Fiction
One Year Anniversary
It’s been an entire year now since I was at my absolute worst mental state I’ve ever been in and I don’t think I would have survived without my amazing support system. I won’t get into much details about what happened but I will say that I trusted someone that I shouldn’t have and it didn’t go well. Then only a few months after that my beloved pet rabbit Cotton passed away suddenly for an unknown reason. So I was at a low point.
By Terri Allen9 months ago in Confessions
A Funny Idea I had Recently
So I have read a fair few hundred books in my time, thousands, millions, every book written so I think I am the most valuable source of information on good and terrible books. No, I’m just kidding. But I do love to sit and read a book with a cup of coffee every now and then. So I have read loads of books and I have furtherly enjoyed some more than others. But that is how it goes for the general reader, you have your favourite genres, writers and tropes. For me…personally… It's a dystopian future book that has my heart, or a fantasy world where you need to go on a dangerous adventure to save the world, anything with magic that makes me so absorbed in the book I feel like the main character and if I’m feeling frisky you can’t go wrong with a spicy enemies to lovers romance trope.
By Terri Allen9 months ago in Writers
Simpson’s Pottery Night!
Before the Event So tonight me and my friend are going to a pottery event from 7:30pm to 9:30pm where we will be painting Simpson’s characters and quotes onto pieces of ready made pottery and a quiz based on the Simpsons cartoon. I know for a fact that Danielle is going to completely ace this quiz, with little to no help from me, and I’ll be surprised if we don’t win.
By Terri Allen9 months ago in Art
A Dream of the Future
I have always had really vivid dreams, I could literally see the future in them. Everything that happened in my dreams seemed to become a reality. It started off small, a simple dream lasting a few seconds. I was in school and the boy I had a crush on had forgotten to bring a pen to class. I let him borrow one of mine. A few days later it came true.
By Terri Allen9 months ago in Fiction
Camp NaNoWriMo Arrives...
So April first is finally here and you know what that means, or maybe you don't…, but it’s finally time for my first attempt at Camp NaNoWriMo. Camp NaNoWriMo is this cute little writing challenge that gives writers a chance to attempt writing a large amount of words in a short time. I believe you can put the word count to whatever you want but keeping with the usual NaNoWriMo goal I have opted for 50,000 words. I need to write 1667 a day to reach the goal by the end of April but this year I am doing it a little differently.
By Terri Allenabout a year ago in Journal
Why I Love Using TikTok
TikTok is a very fun app that I use literally every single day. I am either posting my own TikToks, sending my friends videos that I thought were hilarious or just mindlessly scrolling for hours on end. I regularly find myself getting caught up and all of a sudden I’ve been on TikTok for hours and it’s dark outside. But I love it.
By Terri Allenabout a year ago in Motivation